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Sharing history and news about my books, most recently "Prairie Bachelor" and a new manuscript under review, "Footprints on the Prairie."

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Antique Wallpaper

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Salvage showing "Union Made" wallpaper Did Isaac Werner have wallpaper on any walls in his house?  I don't know, but wall...
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Farming experiments

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Corn grown in glass bottle to study roots Isaac Werner regarded farming as a profession, deserving of serious study, experimentation, a...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Isaac, the Autodidact

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Autodidacts - people who have been partially or wholly self-taught.  Auto didacticism is self-education or self-directed learning. Anto...
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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Isaac's Crockery

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Crockery Butter Churn with Lid When the Administrator of Isaac Werner's Estate retained three neighborhood men to inventory and app...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

What's Old is Always New Again

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Charles Darwin After enduring years of debt and struggle, Isaac Werner finally had put that behind.  Unfortunately his financial achiev...
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

A Solid Foundation

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Isaac Werner's Dream Home Glued inside the cover of Isaac B. Werner's 480-page, leather-bound journal was the picture of an ela...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Politics Hardly Seem to Change, the Sequel

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  Political cartoon from late 1800s, "How Foolish Men Vote" With the inundation of political commercials on television, ...
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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Prickly Poppies

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Prickly Poppy Isaac Werner loved the wild flowers that covered the prairie with color every spring.  As for the prickly poppy, which bl...
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Thursday, October 2, 2014

My Steadfast Tin Soldier, a Sequel

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Two Family Relics found during construction As promised at the close of last week's blog (See "The Steadfast Tin Soldier,...
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

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George & Theresa Hall with Maria & Lillian I love history, as I declared in my first post of this blog, and I have been an enth...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Corn Harvest, Then & Now

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Combine & Grain Wagon, 2014 Last week farmers in our area began harvesting dry land corn.  With rain in the forecast, they pulled i...
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Visit Lynda Beck Fenwick on facebook. Author: "Prairie Bachelor, The Story of a Kansas Homesteader and the Populist Movement," chosen as a Kansas Notable Book, 2021; "Should the Children Pray? A Historical, Judicial and Political Examination of Public School Prayer"; Selected as Georgia Author of the Year for Nonfiction; "Private Choices, Public Consequences, Reproductive Technology and the New Ethics of Conception, Pregnancy, and Family"; Short Story "The Woman Who Loved Atticus" award winner in Texas Bar Journal June 2010; Author Pages, Lynda Beck Fenwick at amazon.com; My biography can be found at https://lynfenwick.com
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